Nichols, Roger L.

Summary: "During the century following George Washington's presidency, the United States fought at least forty wars with various Indian tribes, averaging one conflict every two and a half years. Warrior Nations is Roger L. Nichols's response to the question, "Whydid so much fighting take place?" Examining eight of the wars between the 1780s and 1877, Nichols explains what started each conflict and what...

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 NIC

Summary: "Illustrated with 70 color images of visually powerful historical and contemporary works, this book--which accompanies an exhibition of the same title opening in August 2013 at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York--reveals how Anishinaabe (also known in the United States as Ojibwe or Chippewa) artists have expressed the deeply rooted spiritual and social dimensions of their...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 Before

Pevar, Stephen L.

Summary: "Federal Indian Law encompasses nearly 400 Indian treaties, hundreds of federal statutes, and thousands of court decisions. When the first edition of The Rights of Indians and Tribes was published in 1983, it firmly established itself as the only book explaining Federal Indian Law in a clear and easy-to-understand way for students and practitioners of Indian law, tribal advocates, government...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342 PEV

Summary: "In this sweeping exploration of Indigenous culture, Our Way-A Parallel History brings together Native scholars and leaders to examine the incredible diversity of Native cultures in the US. Representing more than ten Indigenous nations, the contributors seek to dispel the myth, stereotype, and absence of information about American Indian, Native Alaskan, and Native Hawaiian people in the master...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Fulcrum Publishing 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 OUR

Gilio-Whitaker, Dina

Summary: "Interrogating the concept of environmental justice in the U.S. as it relates to Indigenous peoples, this book argues that a different framework must apply compared to other marginalized communities, while it also attends to the colonial history and structure of the U.S. and ways Indigenous peoples continue to resist, and ways the mainstream environmental movement has been an impediment to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 GIL